Wayne Hendrickson selected as the 2001 APS Compton Award recipient

Wayne A. Hendrickson of Columbia University has been selected to receive the 2001 Advanced Photon Source Arthur H. Compton Award. In announcing their choice, the selection committee emphasized the importance of Hendrickson's contributions in the development and use of multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) methods, which have revolutionized the use of synchrotron radiation in the field of structural biology. Dr Hendrickson received this award at the opening session of the Eleventh Users Meeting for the Advanced Photon Source (9–11 October 2001) and delivered the Compton Lecture at that time.

Figure 1 Wayne A. Hendrickson.